0 a formal agreement between a shop or other business and a customer, in which the customer can take goods and pay the shop or business for them at a later time
1 an arrangement that allows a customer to buy things and pay for them at a later time
2 an account which allows you to buy and take away goods, and use services, and pay for them later:
If the charge account is to remain open until the next crop comes in, on some rainy day he will transcribe the charge to his day-book.
Therefore, to avoid this whole transaction, people who have not charge accounts, should order the meal ahead, and at the same time pay for it in advance, including the waiter's tip.
You'd get on well without your maid and your car and your father's charge accounts at all the shops, wouldn't you?
A charge coin usually had the charge account number along with the merchant's name and logo.
She opens a charge account and starts to purchase expensive items like a water bed as she tries to build a dream home.
The company also revolutionized retailing with their introduction of revolving charge account cards.
I battled for a right to challenge service charge accounts, a right which, until then, had been non-existent.
